The weekend was great 11.66 miles hiked on Saturday in 4:39min at Big Basin. Alum Rock today completed 4.29 miles in an 1:29min. Waterfalls are beautiful with all the rain we've had. Building strong legs and a lot of stamina. Goals#Nature#T

This year for @wildbirdresearch also brought some unique firsts in the resident birds of #CostaRica as well. The biggest shock and surprise was the White-throated Magpie Jay, for jays this has to be the most fancy looking jay around, they’re also extremely smart and often traveling in large cooperative groups, meaning they have eluded us at all our research sites, until now. Hopefully will have more of a sample size in the future to learn about their molt. The other big surprise the Royal Flycatcher in the mangroves, this now is our second time getting a Royal Fly, they are not common on this side of Costa Rica, but might be overlooked. Others are some of our common residents we get and also another new species, Common Tody Flycatcher, ill talk more about some of the details of resident species research in the coming weeks on here and @wildbirdresearch, but for now enjoy a little highlight of White-throated Magpie Jay, Lessons Motmot, Royal Flycatcher, Common Tody Flycatcher, Long-tailed Manakin.